Desktop Publishing (i.e. Pagemaker replacement)

billatq · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 96

Putting traditional LaTeX aside and word processor type programs such as Openoffice, would anyone know of a desktop publishing suite available on linux? I mainly use pagemaker, but I wish that I didn't have to boot into windows for that purpose.

sertsa · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 49 Location: High Desert

There is Scribus http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/index.html

Its in portage. I have never used it.

clubbabyseals · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 21

i've used scribus a bit. it is more like quark than pagemaker, i.e. you have to draw text and image boxes before being able to place either. of course i have not used scribus enough to really give you the differences. I use pagemaker and quark on a daily basis and scribus is really good for a repllacement. not perfect yet, but pretty darn good for it still being under 1.0.